Systems and methods for searching for analog notations and annotations

摘要

Systems and methods are provided for searching for analog data, including hand writing, facial expressions and voice data. With respect to analog writing, a device records and stores analog writing, including time, pressure and position as a writing tool moves on a touch screen device. A search term that includes time, pressure and position data, is received. The search term is compared with the time, pressure and position stored on the device. If they are similar, then the stored analog writing is displayed. In other example embodiments, facial expressions and voice data can be used as search terms to respectively search for stored facial expressions and voice data.

主权项

1. A method performed by a computing device for searching for analog data, comprising:
receiving a digital search term; using the digital search term to search an analog writing mapping database, a facial expressions mapping database and a voice mapping database, the mapping databases respectively comprising mappings between digital text and analog writing, mappings between digital text and photos of facial expressions, and mappings between digital text and voice data; when the digital search term matches a digital text entry in one of the mapping databases, obtaining an analog search term mapped to the digital text entry, the analog search term comprising an analog writing, a photograph of a facial expression or a voice data; consistent with which one of the mapping databases that was used to obtain the analog term, searching one of an analog writing database, a facial expression database and a voice database using the analog search term to return the analog data and a data link to a location of the analog data within a file as a search result.